Faculty Profiles

Biography

Srirangaraj (Ranga) Setlur is the Principal Investigator (PI) of
and directs projects at CEDAR sponsored by the United States Postal Service
for the evaluation of recognition systems.

Under the aegis of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS),
he is also actively involved in
projects sponsored by NSF, HP Labs, and DARPA (through BBN Technologies) for Devanagari and Arabic OCR and other projects related to document analysis and pattern recognition. He is also working with Matrix Systems & Solutions, a Western New York company for developing custom 2-D barcode reading solutions for industrial automation.

Ranga has been at CEDAR since 1992 and at CUBS since its inception in
2003. Over the years, he has worked on
many past projects both at CEDAR as well as at CUBS sponsored by the United States Postal Service such
as the Handwritten Address Interpretation, Universal Message Routing
System and Interactive Services Research projects and directed the UK
Address Interpretation project sponsored by Lockheed Martin Federal
Systems. He has also worked on projects related to Automated
Fingerprint Identification Systems with Ultra-Scan Inc.

Ranga has been a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator
on many sponsored projects since 1998 on funding of about $21.5M from
agencies such as USPS, DARPA and NSF, and companies such as BBN
Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Ultra-Scan Inc and Matrix-SSI.
Ranga has also co-authored a book on Devanagari OCR and published papers in many
journals and conferences in the area of Pattern Recognition. He has
held conference and workshop leadership positions in DAS2010, MOCR09,
AutoID05, DIAL04, DIAR03, IWFHR02, and ICDAR99.